The New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission is a state agency of
New Jersey
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, headquartered in
Ewing Township, near
Trenton. The commission, under the office of the
Attorney General of New Jersey
The attorney general of New Jersey is a member of the executive cabinet of the state and oversees the Department of Law and Public Safety. The office is appointed by the governor of New Jersey, confirmed by the New Jersey Senate, and term limited. ...
, provides youth correctional services.
Facilities
The New Jersey Training School, the JJC's largest facility, houses around 300 boys. It is in
Monroe Township, Middlesex County.
The state's other secure facilities are located in the Johnstone Campus in
Bordentown. All adjudicated girls go to the Johnstone Campus Juvenile Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, which has a capacity for 52 inmates.
[Johnstone Campus]
" New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission. Retrieved on August 12, 2010. There are detention cells which may hold up to 8 girls. Normally the entire girls' area may house up to 48 girls. Boys go to Juvenile Medium Security Facility-North Compound (JMSF-N) and the Juvenile Medium Security Facility-South Compound (JMSF-S); these two parts altogether may house up to 262 inmates.
[ As of 2015 about 118 boys live in the medium compound.
In 1996 the state opened a boot camp for juvenile offenders. The commission did a study which concluded that of the males who went to the boot camp between February 1997 and August 1999, within a two year period of completing the program 80% had later been arrested.][Diamond, Randy.]
. ''The Bergen Record
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''. Sunday July 29, 2001. Retrieved on December 29, 2015.
References
External links
New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission
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State agencies of New Jersey
Penal system in New Jersey
Juvenile detention centers in the United States
State corrections departments of the United States